Vehicle-axle skein



J. O. SEBRING. Vehicle Axle Skein.

No. 229,920. Patented July '13, 1880.

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JOSEPH O. SEBRING, OF MILL CREEK TOWNSHIP, WABAUNSEE COUNTY, KANSAS.

VEHICLE-AXLE SKEIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,920, dated d'uly 13, 1880.

Application filed December 31, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it-known that I, JOSEPH G. SEEKING, of Mill Creek township, Wabaunsee county, and State of Kansas, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Axle-Skeins, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My improvement relates to a thimble'skein for wagons and other vehicles, consisting of a metal thimble for awooden axle.

The improvement consists in forming the under part of the spindle with two places (one on each side) somewhat flattened, so as to form receptacles for grease, preventing the grease from being pressed out at the ends of the hub, and supplyingit as needed to the parts of the spindle on which the most severe friction comes, and in inclining the upper part of the butting collar backward from the hub, so that the wheel-hub shall only come in contact with its lower part.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is an axial section. Fig. 3 is a transverse section at a a, Fig.2. Fig. 4 is a transverse section at b b, Fig. 2.

The spindle has a cavity, A, for the insertion of the end of the wooden axle.

The inner end of the skein consists of a fer- .rule or band, B, with the butting collar 0 at advantages claimed for this in that a receptacle is provided for the grease, from which it is furnished to lubricate the bearing part c.

The spindle 1) is made with two parts, (1 d, extending from end to end, or nearly so, of less degree of convexity than the rest, so that said parts will not be in contact with the hub, but

between the hub and spindle at these points carried in a position to be supplied to the friction-surfaces.

In place of the two (more or less) flattened parts d, there may be only one of said parts d, or morethan two; but I prefer the construction shown and described.

I claim as my invention- 1. In an axle-skein, the combination ofbntting collar 0, having part c at right angles to theunder side of the spindle and backwardly-inclined portion 0, and the spindle D, havin g flat faces (1 d on two sides and the extended portion d between said flattened portions, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The butting collar 0, having part c at right angles to the under side of the spindle and the part c inclining backward from the hub, as described.

I11 testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of December, 1879.

JOSEPH O. SEBRING.

Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, Gno. H. KNIGHT. 

